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Witness the Silliest, Quirkiest, and Derpiest Wildlife Photo Finalists of 2024

A surprise meeting between a woodpecker and an aghast owlet. An elephant seal cheesing. A mantis raising the roof on a Spanish roadside. All this and more awaits you in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards for 2024, showcasing nature at its most amusing and bewildering.

The shortlist includes 40 images of wildlife that ekes out existence on land, sea, and air. (You’ll note that the first photo in the set includes a fish in the air, apparently chasing after a low-flying bald eagle.) The public can also vote on their favorite photos of the finalists here, which were themselves selected from a field about nearly 9,000 images taken in 98 different countries.

Nikon launched the competition in 2015 as an opportunity to anthropomorphize the animal kingdom, seeing relatable moments from nature that provoke everything from a chuckle to a chortle. Previous winners of the top prize have included a lion colliding with a tree (2022) and a monkey landing on a branch in a most uncomfortable way (2021). You can see the finalists from last year here.

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The competition also included three video finalists, including clips of an ape having trouble climbing a branch, a fox rolling in the grass, and one tern taking a turn riding on (checks notes) another tern. Many terns to take a look at.

Earlier this year, the competition released a shortlist of photos under consideration for this year’s prize. Those images included shots of a three-headed giraffe, some too-curious birds, and polar bears apparently telling bad jokes. They’re the kind of photos you have to see to believe, or at least understand.

The overall winner of the annual awards, as well as the category and highly commended winners, will be announced in London on December 10. The categories up for consideration include one for mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, insects, fish “and other aquatic species,” according to an awards release. There are also competition categories for young photographer, junior photographer, video, and of course, the people’s choice award.

Besides offering moments of levity from the natural world—a beautiful but merciless place to eke out existence—the images showcase the importance of conservation. Take the image of the chance meeting between two birds at the top of this article. That’s an image the ivory-billed woodpecker will never have the chance to recreate. Wildlife is majestic, pretty, surprising, and yes, funny, but it’s up to humankind to keep it that way.

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